PHOTO PATTERN DATA ELEMENTS: BEACH RIDGE
The Coastal Plain- This region consists of marl, sand, silt, and clay deposits recently elevated from the ocean floor. The smooth, flat topography is interrupted by large easterly or southerly flowing streams cutting through the marshy coastal surface. In these coastal lowlands of the West Gulf Coastal Plain are formed a series of ridges standing at the ocean’s edge. (Wet, Subtropic)
Form
Drainage
Gully Characteristics
Plain, narrow, parallel raised features, a few feet of relief, located along coast, former position of shoreline.
Internal, no developed pattern.
Usually none are formed in low relief features.
Special Features Parallel ridges alternating with troughs of organic matter.
Color (Photo Gray Tones) Light tones where cultivated open areas occur, dark when
Land Use tree covered or marshland.
Some quarrying- only location of coarse material along
Vegetation coast; cultivated- garden crops.
Pine forest, live oak, scattered trees where cultivated.
Source: Terrain analysis procedural guide for surface configuration, US Army engineer topographic laboratories, p. 7-35